Which is the best predictor of a future heart attack, eating fat or an out of control blood sugar?

In this video, at 26 minutes, 5 seconds he makes a very bold statement that begins to answer that question I just asked about fat and sugar:

Tim Noakes:“glucose is the single most important predictor of your risk”

Professor Noakes is saying your blood sugar, your blood glucose level of control, is the single most important predictor of your risk of having a heart disease related event or a bad outcome in this disease.

This is a bold statement, and it turns the common knowledge of most people upside down, because most people think fat is the thing that gives you heart disease, therefore, control the fat and control the disease.

Tim Noakes quotes study after study that show blood sugar control is the most accurate number that predicts a bad outcome for heart disease, not fat.

This article is my attempt to break down, Bob style, these complicated studies into small bite sized bits you can use as a comeback, when someone annoys you with their “all that fat is going to give you a heart attack” statements.

They call me Butter Bob, but . . .

There’s something more to my story than Butter.

You Can See My Before and After

You Can Watch My Videos

But, you don’t know my whole story until you understand I lost 145 lbs with both Butter AND Fasting.

Most diets force you to use “will power” to eat less, but this doesn’t work for long.

A better way is eating healthy fats, like Butter, which turn off the “out of control hunger urges” that you’ve struggled with all your life.

This gives you complete appetite control.

This appetite control gives you freedom without using “will power” and enables you to do what is called “intermittent fasting“.

No diet or exercise plan can DO for you what Short Term Fasting can do.

But until you actually learn all the things intermittent fasting can DO for you, it’s just my word and my story, it doesn’t relate to you.

They call me Butter Bob, but the truth is, I could just as easily be called Fasting Bob.

Here, in America, blood glucose is measured in mg/dL, so for every 1 mg/dL increase of blood sugar, the risk for Cardiovascular Disease increase 7.6%. For those of you outside the USA, it takes close to 2 mg/dL to equal a 0.1 change on your blood sugar test.

A1C and Heart Disease

The A1C test goes by many other names, including glycated hemoglobin, glycosylated hemoglobin, hemoglobin A1C and HbA1c
The A1C test result reflects your average blood sugar level for the past two to three months. Specifically, the A1C test measures what percentage of your hemoglobin — a protein in red blood cells that carries oxygen — is coated with sugar (glycated). The higher your A1C level, the poorer your blood sugar control and the higher your risk of diabetes complications.

Here’s how A1C level corresponds to average blood sugar level, in milligrams per deciliter (mg/dL) and millimoles per liter (mmol/L):

Increase in A1C – Increase in Heart events and Death

The following study is the real cream of the crop. As we who follow a high fat diet know, it reduces your A1c and now this study lets us know how much more important blood sugar control is than total cholesterol. As you can see in the graphic below, heart disease events and death go up along with an increasing A1c score.

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Hi, I made “fat bomb” with following ration 1 cup raw cacao powder, 1 full pkg of KerryGold grassfed butter, 1 tbl spoon of unpressed cocount oid. and 1 table spoon of raw honey.
My question is that is Honey OK? The above honey ratio in fat bomb is pretty low to get the bitterness taste out of the raw cacao powder. Do suggest any other type of not artificial and none-processed sweetner?

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